evertor

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  1. That which everts or rotates outward, as a muscle. Lancet, July 4, 1903. p. 56.
  2. Eve's apple in Ceylon, a name applied by the English to the fruit of Ervatamia dichotoma (Tabernæmontana dichotoma of Roxburgh), a small dichotomously branched tree belonging to the dogbane family. It has a milky latex, dark-green, coriaceous leaves, and fragrant white, salver-shaped flowers with yellow throat. The fruit consists of two distinct carpels, broadly ovoid when ripe, and orange yellow without. They contain numerous seeds surrounded by crimson pulp.
  3. Eve's cup the trumpet-leaf or huntsman's-horn, Sarracenia flava.
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